Gas-producer.



No. 735,492. PATENTED'AUG. 4; 1902 J'. W. GAYNBR. GAS PRODUCER.

APPLICATIONIILED SEPT. 18, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

UNITE ST TES Patented August 4, 1903.

ATENT FFICE.

JOHN WILLIAM GAYhTER, .OF SALEM, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO AMERI- CANPRODUCER-GAS FURNACE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

. GAS-PRODUCER.

SPECIFICATION forrning part of Letters Eatent No. 735,492, dated August4, 1903. Application filed September 18,1902. Serial No. 123,809. (Nomodel.)

The invention further consists of details of construction, as will behereinafter specifically described and claimed.

Figure 1 represents a top plan of a gas-producer plant, with a conduitleading therefrom shown in section. Fig. 2 represents a Vertical sectionthereof, taken on the line o: 00.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates a plurality of gas-producersthat communicate with a common vault or compartment B by means of thevalved pipes G. V

D designates the conduit leading from the compartment B to the furnace.

The fuel employed in gas-producers deposits a large amount of soot uponthe interior of the different conduits by which the gas is conductedfrom the producers to the furnace, and so much so, in fact, as to partially close the conduit, so that it becomes necessary for thesuccessful operation of the gas-producer to remove this soot. Of courseit is desirable to remove these accumulations with the greatestexpedition to avoid closing down the furnace. To accomplish this, in thepresent case I have shown a conduit D, that consists of offset sectionsE, opposite the ends of which sections are openings F in the walls ofthe conduit thatare adapted to be closed. by doors G. Hoes or scrapers Hare employed in removing the soot, one of which is shown in saiddrawings.

The operation is as follows: When it is desired to remove the soot fromthe conduit D of the gas-producer leading, for instance, to aglass-furnace, it is possible if the soot is removed quickly to cut offthe flow of gas from the producers to the furnace without cooling ofl":the mass of glass in the furnace to an undesirable extent. Itisunderstood, of course, that if the flow of gas to the furnace is out OK;for such length of time as to cool the glass 3 Iundesirable resultsfollow. Therefore when using my invention as soon as the valves in thepipes O are closed all of the doors G are quickly opened and then with aman manipulating a hoe through each of thesedoors the soot can bequickly removed from the sections and through the openings F in a spaceof time that will permit the doors G to be closed and the flow of gasagain turned on before the temperature of the mass of glass in thefurnace is reduced to annndesirable extent.

It is understood, of course, that the vault orcompartment B is alsoprovided with'openings K, having suitable doors L, which. can

"be opened to permit the hoes or scrapers M to be inserted and the sootremoved therefrom while it is being removed from the conduit. It isseen, therefore, that by making the conduit in offset sections I amenabled to apply myinvention, no matter how far the entire conduitextends, it being understood that in the case of a long straight con-"duit it would not be practical to manipulate the hoe or scraper havinga handle of the length required to reach all parts of the conduit. madeof the desired length, so that a hoe with a handle of practical lengthcan be used from the opening at each end of the section, so as to cleanout the entire section.

Itis understood, of course, that while it is preferable to have anopening at the end of each section whereby two hoes can be manipulatedin each section, yet the section could be shorter and have an opening atone end thereof, as will be obviou Having thus described my invention,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A conduit for conveying gas from a gasproducer, consisting ofsubstantially horizontal angular sections having openings at their ends,the bottoms of said sections extending The sections E,-however, can be Ito said openings, whereby a scraper can be inserted to scrape theaccumulations within said sections to and through said openings.

2. The combination with a gas-producer having a valved outlet, of aconduit consisting of substantially horizontal angular sections providedwith openings at their ends, the bottoms of said sections extending tosaid openings, whereby the accumulations therein can be scraped to andthrough said openlngs.

3. A conduit for conveying gas from a gasproducer, consisting ofsubstantially horizontal angular sections, said sections being providedwith valved openings in the side thereof opposite the end of an adjacentsection, the bottoms of said sections extending to said valved openings,and means for removingthe accumulations in said sections through saidopenings.

4.. A conduit for conveying gas from a gasopenings, whereby theaccumulations can be I scraped to and through the same.

6. A conduit for conveying gas from gasproducers, consisting ofsubstantially horizontal zigzag sections, and openings at the ends ofsaid sections alternating on opposite sides of the conduit.

J. WILLIAM GAYNER.

Witnesses:

S. L. RICHMOND, E. J. RICHMOND.

